The Near Future of AI Media
CableLabs is developing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that are helping pave the way to an emerging paradigm of media experiences. We’re identifying architecture and...
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W3C Recommendation: Plugin-Free Playback of Premium Content
The recent World Wide Consortium (W3C) Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) Recommendation describes the importance of browser-based content protection for a better user experience when viewing...
The Cost of Codecs: Royalty-Bearing Video Compression Standards and the Road that Lies Ahead
Since the dawn of digital video, royalty-bearing codecs have always been the gold standard for much of the distribution and consumption of our favorite...
Gadgets Galore in our Comfortable Living Room Lab
Someone once said, “Seeing is Believing.” At CableLabs, we believe that “Doing is Knowing.” With this in mind, we crafted a space in our...
Active Story: How Virtual Reality is Changing Narratives
I love story, it’s why I got into filmmaking. I love the archetypal form of the written story, the many compositional techniques to achieve...
Who Will Win The Race For Virtual Reality Content?
This is the second of a series of posts on Virtual Reality technology by Steve and others at CableLabs. You can find the first...
Is Virtual Reality the Next Big Thing?
In the Advanced Technology Group at CableLabs I get to play with all the best toys, trying to work out what is a challenge...
Content Creation Demystified: Open Source to the Rescue
There are four main concepts involved in securing premium audio/visual content: Authentication Authorization Encryption Digital Rights Management (DRM) Authentication is the act of verifying...
Web Media Playback: Solved with dash.js
(Disclaimer: the author is a regular contributor to the dash.js project) A crucial piece of any standards development process is the creation of a...
Adaptive Bitrate and MPEG-DASH
The basic solution that streaming video provides is that an entire video file does not need to be downloaded before it is viewed. Little...
Encrypted Media Extensions Provide a Common Ground
Background Carriage agreements between content owners and Multichannel Video Programming Distributors (MVPDs) are likely to contain clauses that require the MVPD to provide ample...
Standards-Based, Premium Content for the Modern Web
How Premium Video Content Streams over the Internet These days, a person is just as likely to be watching a movie on their laptop,...